Bar dressing.



A. L. EATON.

BAR DRESSING.

(Application filed Kay 21, 1901.)

No. 591,935. Patented Jan. 28, 1902.

(No Model.)

WITNESSES: INVENTOR NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ANDRE? LINCOLN EATON, OF NElV YORK, N. Y.

BAR DRESSING.

sI-EOIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 691,935, dated 3 anuary 28, 1902.

Application filed May 21,1901. Serial No. 61,245. (No model.)

T0 at whom it may concern.-

.136 it known that 1, ANDREW LINCOLN EATON, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of the borough of Manhattan, city, county,- and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bar Dressing, of which the following is a specification.

My present invention relates to that class of dressing in which a body of grease or some other suitable lubricating material is used in the form of a bar, stick, or cartridge having a thin frangible envelop or' covering easily detachable from the solidified com pound within and said covering or shell being provided at some suitable point within-as, for instance, the endwith a stiffening device which will enable that end or part of the bar which is thus strengthened to serve as a handle for the easy manipulation of the dressing.

The invention is preminently adapted for use with a dressing to be applied to drivingbelts and other leather goods, although this dressing is only one of a multitude of substances that may be prepared in this fashion for sale and use.

The case or covering which contains the dressing or similar material may be composed of paper, cloth, or other equivalent substance which is easily frangible or severable. The compound may be placed within it when fluid and allowed to sufficiently solidify to maintain a firm consistency during ordinary atmospheric temperatures, but will readily soften or fluidize or become friable when exposed to the air by friction against the belts or other articles which it may be desired to dress. In the application of a stiffening device to the dressing-containing shell I attain the advantage of having a strong and durable handle on a package which might otherwise be injured and broken with rough handling before theconsumption of its contents. The invention may therefore be said to consist, essentially, in the combination, construction, and arrangement of parts substantially as will be hereinafter set forth.

In the accompanying drawing, illustrating my invention, the figure is a sectional side View of my improved bar dressing and the handle device therein, the latter being shown as consisting of a wooden block.

Like numerals of reference denote like parts in thefigure.

l denotesa tube or cylindrical case,ofpaper, cloth, thin metal, or other suitable material whichisadapted to form a shell to contain the dressing or lubricating compound, it being only essential that the shell should be sufficiently thin to enable it to be easily cut or severed to permit access to its contents. When the shellor tube 1 is com posed of paper, it will preferably be furnished with end caps 7 and 8.

Withinthe shell or case 1 is the dressing material 2, which, as I have already said, may be of any suitable composition or compound adapted to be used to dress leather and other articles or to lubricate journals and parts of machinery or any other solidified compound that will readily soften or otherwise change its solid condition for such state as may be necessary to fit it for use.

At some suitable point within tube 1 is placed a stifiening or reinforcing device, which will enable the tube at that point to provide a section that may be easilygrasped by the hand in order that the hands of the user may be saved from injury in the use of the bar and in order that no waste of the dressing material may take place on account of a portion being left unused and inaccessible in the end of the tube. The wooden block 3 (shown in the figure) is inserted in the end of the tube, the terminal cap 7 fitting neatly over and concealing it, said block 3 being preferably securely fixed within the tube by glue or other adhesive substance or by tacks or other securing devices. The inner face 4: (or-both faces) of block 3 may be in a plane at right angles to the axis of the block 3, as shown in dotted lines in the figure, or it may be concave, as shown in full lines of the said figure. Further, it (or both faces) is preferably provided with several indentations or holes 6, while the circular edge of this inner end of block 3 is preferably beveled, as at 5. The object of beveling the holes and the concavity is to provide recesses into which the dressing or lubricating compound may run and solidify for the purpose of causing the block of dressing to become firmly connected to the wooden block 3, so that when the inclosing case 1 has been cut off down to the block the remnant of the dressing will be carried by the block until it has been entirely used up. I reserve the liberty of making the flat face of the block 3, into contact with which the dressing or lubricant comes, with the stated irregularities or with any other irregularities, recesses, or projections which may be found best adapted to fitit for having the dressing firmly joined thereto, as suggested.

In using a bar dressing of the character herein described a portion of the paper will be cut off at the end opposite where the ban dle is located, thus exposing a portion of the dressing, which can be applied to abelt while it is in motion or at rest, as desired, or if the tube contains a solidified lubricant it will be exposed, so as to be easily applicable to any part which is to be lubricated. The block or device which is carried within the tube enables it to be grasped tightly by the hand of the user without crushing the package, and thus facilitates the manipulation of the devlce.

Having thus described my invent-ion, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The combination with a paper tube or of so as to serve as a handle, and having indentations on the face thereof, the tube being adapted to be cut or torn off from time to time to expose more or less of the interior dressing or lubricant for use.

2. The combination with a tube containing a solidified dressing, lubricant or similar substance, of a block inserted and secured firmly in the end thereof, said block having peripheral beveled groove and serving to reinforce the strength of the tube as well as to enable a part of it to serve as a handle, the said tube being of such material, as paper, that it can be cut off piece by piece to permit access to the lubricant within, substantially as described. V

Signed at New York this 16th day of May, 1901.

ANDREW LINCOLN EATON.

Witnesses:

JOHN H. HAZELTON, A. E. SAMUELS. 

